Interesting Links for 03-04-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Vast pedophile network shut down in Europol's largest CSAM operation

(tags:children abuse internet police Europe )

2. Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency (I'm really interested to see if we see more diversity over the next few years)

(tags:economics usa politics )

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

#1, it's horrible - but I'm still confused, how come AI-generated images can be a crime.

[andrewducker]

One of the justifications is that the AIs are trained on real child abuse.

[juan_gandhi]

Oh. Thank you. I should have guessed myself. Now I'm convinced, so if anybody starts arguing... thank you!

[bens_dad]

Your repost What even is Britain ? from yesterday talks about the "techo-bros" going into cryptocurrencies. Would they want to go as far as a reserve currency ?

[andrewducker]

You are, I'm afraid, behind the times: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-establishes-the-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-and-u-s-digital-asset-stockpile/